There are people I'm just ignoring. Not Mom, of course. But some threads and some people aren't worth pissing myself off. We'll all just have to make a better effort for Mom than our best.

Let's give 110%!

Of course, logically and mathematically you can't.

I went for a pre-op exam today. EKG, blood work, even a MERSA swap up my nose. Took better than 2 hours. Probably would have taken less if they'd told me to stop doing something like breathing deeply after they'd finished, but it wouldn't have been as much fun. Of course, after they'd drawn two tubes of blood the results of the five tubes of blood the VA had drawn on Monday showed up in the mail. Anyway, I'm down about 70 ml. of blood and I'm walking with a list to starboard because there's less blood on the port side and I'm unbalanced.

Now, how would one throw that on the battlefield? I can barely lift an empty snow shovel.

The lack of threads and posts? Well, that ain't a mystery to me. Even *I* have just about had enough of the continuous bullshit trolls. After the last few rounds of inane crap, I have decided to cut my stress in responding to near zero. Over the past couple of days, I just walked away from some of it. Hmmmm... don't feed the trolls works? Who would have thought? >;-)

Idaho National Lab is just up the road and bit West. LOTS of fun stuff out there, including some things dropped or shot during WW2 which didn't go "BANG!" But I figured about 10kg of U235 in two 5kg lots slammed together fast oughta do it. Not much, maybe 0.8KT nominal yield, but REALLY REALLY dirty.

Maybe I'll stick the parts down one of the holes in Yellowstone and see what happens. I'm always up for some scientifical experimenting. Maybe I'll discover a new energy source or something. I'll have to get someone else to do the sticking because I'll have to do the measuring and figgering part.

I kind of doubt it would make a fission weapon, using commercially available fuel rods. The reactor I worked on had 4 ft rods, and was about 20KW output. Best that I would expect is to reprocess the spent fuel for use in a SNAP system, and utilize the waste heat as well.

I'm playing at being a techie around the office today, mixing and matching batteries and cameras and low-calibre stuff, no atomic bombs or nucular reactors (it always drove me nuts when Dubya used that word).

Wanting some info on small, self-contained nuclear reactors I entered such as a search string. Several entries came up, including "nuclear reactors" on e-bay. Never one to pass up a bargain on a nuclear reactor, I looked. To my dismay all of the entrie were for models or books.

Then there was the fuckup with her income taxes that I tried to explain but that's when it went ballistic for no reason. The accountant fucked up on some info and, well, I shut up until it was resolved. That caused Mum more stress and, well, youse know what it's like to see a loved one in distress. It's stressful. HEY! WTF is stressful spelt with only ONE 'l'??? Jaysus H that PsMO!!!! Ohmmmmmm

Contentious, nasty threads at Mudcat. I went bad on an old friend and felt badly before, during and after doing it but I had to do it. PMO ta NO end! Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Kaspersky... M$ Office... so I put it all outta me mind b'y. And I changed from my Bday induced carefree splurge on decadent spicey and chemical laced foods to a diet of fruit, veggies, cereal and Bud. I got Mum calmed down. Hmmm... I got me calmed down. Thank DOG Mom didn't end up in the gutter while I was astray from the MOAB. Woulda give me a heart attack.

Chicago, March 12. In an accident the police called "bizarre" a local private investigator undid a sex-change operation with a tommy gun early this morning.

Chongo Chimp, a long-time resident of the South Side, apparently dropped a Thompson submachine gun in his apartment above the Four Deuces at 2222 S. Wabash. The gun fired and "emptied an entire fifty round magazine" in to Chimp's groin area according to police.

Chimp was taken to Cook County General where it was found that because the bullets had struck certain areas an old transgender operation had been reversed and he was changed back into a female.

According to a source who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to talk about the case, Chimp came out of the anesthesia murmuring, "I'm Chonga again."

Chimp remains in critical condition at the hospital and the police are continuing their investigation.

I have verification of myself from sources ranging from the Veterans Administration to my wife to my mother and my grandmothers and my great-grandmothers and my great-great Aunt Tilly. Sure, a DNA check against my siblings might be challenging but that's only because as the first-born I got the cream of the genes and they got the leftovers.

YEh, right. As if we could even count on you being you, let alone someone else! Come to think of it, I don't think we can trust anyone to do it right. Nothing personal, you understand. Nature of the task description...

Neither Chrome nor IE11 will alow me to see the box with which I can post to threads. I am using IE9 on my old desktop. I am stressed.

Mudcat was running fast on IE and superfast on CHROME AND MAX TOOK THE SITE DOWN. When it came back up, I could load the main forum page after about three tries and then a thread after over 5 tries but could not post. Oh crap this keyboard sucks.... sorry abut the caps. I had to reintall it. Gotta buy a new one tomorrow.

Just delivered a big roasted boneless blade beef roast supper with spuds, turnip and carrots boiled with a pinch of summer savoury, a dash of salt and of pepper to Mum. She declared the jus I delivered as soon as I took the roast from the oven delightful. The roast melts in the mouth. My house smells equally delightful from the oven emanations. I am sufficiently well oiled. I did 7 good deeds today. All in all, a good 57th. And, I shall be partaking of much music and some phone calls from old buddies ce soir. The emails and Facebook posts/PMs have been rolling in all day. The first was from Freda Underhill...

G stands for Gnu, whose weapons of attack Are long, sharp, curling jokes, and a very strange quack. To these he adds a name so short and strong, That even wordy mudcatters pronounce it wrong. How often on a dim and soggy eve The song soaked mudcatters ardently believe, 'Come, let us sing with ______' Then no more is heard but sounds of strong men struggling with a word; Meanwhile the distant Gnu with patient eyes Oberserves his music stand and sighs... Happy Birthday Gnu from way Down under don't drink too much or you may chunder

Yes, I can. You go down First Avenue and turn left. Go six or seven blocks and turn right. There's an alley on your left just past Smitty's Tavern, the one that burned down in '47 ya know, so just turn left and when you get to the next block. It looks like a dead end street but it isn't, just turn right onto Marzie Boulevard and go about a mile and half to where you'll see a Friendly's ice cream shop sort of kitty-corner from you. Go straight ahead for a few more blocks and turn right and then right again. No, you'll have to do a U-turn because you should have turned left. Sorry. Anyway, continue straight until you get to the Esso station, turn left, and it'll be on your right. Try not to run over Oscar's garbage can or he'll eat your bicycle or car or whatever you're in including your shoes.

It is much easier not to, Rapp. You really do hide your merit under a bushel--actually more like a terabushel.

Named after Terabushel Yoctogram, the renowned Professor of Quantities at MIT, who first espoused the award-winning theory, "Count it all before it gets away!!" Despite the scandals surrounding his arrest for improper numeracy of a minor, he was allowed to retire from MIT with a full pensionin exchange for assigning to the Institute all his copyrights for "numbering things one after an other" including those won as a result of his decades-long lawsuit against Sesame Street.

I normally would prop her up early on in the AM but I had a busy morn dumping AVG after Malwarebytes found and destroyed 13 threats. I then installed a full blown 30 day Kaspersky (#1 in PC consumer mags and it's a company from Canuckistan). I then did my 2013 taxes using Future Tax. Then, I went shopping for birthday presents for Mum. I got 2 pairs of PJ pants, 6 pairs of HD socks and Kaspersky 2014 Pure 3.0. I put the items in one a them there gift bags what I got at the Dollar Store and covered it with the fancy white paper. I will take the bag to Mum's tomorrow AM and act real surprised like when I open up the bag and say things like "OMG! JUST WHAT I WANTED! HOW DID YOU KNOW?! AND SOCKS! AND KASPERSKY!!! I love you, Mum. Thanks." I hope she gets a laugh out of it.

Yesterday, as I usually do on her and my Bday and at Kissmeass, I gave her two dozen roses, white and red, a big hug and a 'thanks for looking after me' for, well, this year it will be 57 years and nine months. Hmmm... part of that should be 'putting up with me' I suppose.